Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Exploring anxieties about the impact of the internet on young people, Pixel Dust is timely and intelligent, but often frustratingly unfocused. Writer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMIn the opening moments of moving one-man show Mental, creator Kane Power describes the piece as “just a series of stories and
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Dancing along the line between rehashing the past and recapturing the positivity of youth, Replay is a thoughtful character piece from writer
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Looking at the ludicrous as well as the bleaker aspects of dementia, Cockamamy is a warm, deeply personal show peppered with black
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Taut but slow moving, Gerry Moynihan’s Continuity unfolds with a sort of purposeful predictability. Evoking the cycle of violence, vengeance, and grief
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Sadism, masochism, and animal cruelty abound in Rabbits, an offbeat, blackly comic exploration of enduring love and atypical sexuality. Writer Joe Hampson
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From the outset, Oliver Twist – a production “created for everyone aged six and over” – struggles to pin down its tone.
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The latest in a string of stage adaptations of David Walliams’ children’s books, The Midnight Gang is a pleasant, if somewhat shallow,
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Concluding the Guildford Shakespeare Company’s 12th summer season of outdoor performances, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is an unfussy, unpretentious crowd pleaser.
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Sam Shepard’s vitriolic 2005 satire The God of Hell is an uncomfortable and imperfect play. Brutal and occasionally bemusing, it tells the
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In the bustling backstage areas of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, a tangible sense of community spirit is being fostered. At a time
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Exploring the experiences of women inmates at the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, The Scar Test is a poignant look at the
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Taking its title from a philosophical treatise on objectivity, The View from Nowhere is a thought provoking examination of clashing egos and
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Static, slow moving, and purely descriptive, Forced Entertainment’s text-based performance piece Dirty Work (The Late Shift) sounds like it might be aggressively
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After more than two decades, the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival is still going strong, with an accessible, eclectic line up of
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Given the increasingly polarised, increasingly absurd state of British politics, a comic drama examining the conflict between moderate and radical perspectives could
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Condensing and repurposing Shakespeare’s original text, writer David Fairs discovers a much blacker comedy at the heart of Much Ado About Nothing.
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By turns heart-warming and heart breaking, Mikel Murfi’s I Hear You and Rejoice is a gentle, elegiac multi-character monologue about grief and
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Issues of identity and objectification are at the heart of Marius von Mayenburg’s 2007 play The Ugly One, an outrageous allegory of
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Two bitter loners trapped in separate destructive spirals share a redemptive one night stand in John Patrick Shanley’s low key, low life
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The aroma of roasting peppers fills the air as the audience arrives for Declining Solo, a bittersweet performance piece packed with evocative
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Questions of consent and capacity seethe under the surface of Punts, a measured exploration of desire centred on Jack – a young man
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American composer Adam Gwon’s minimalist musical Ordinary Days is all about seeing the beauty in the unremarkable. A snapshot of the intersecting
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Based on the children’s book by Kathryn Cave, Something Else tells the story of an unusual creature who lives alone in a
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Set in a low-key fascist dystopia where voting has been replaced by the luck of the draw, Lottery is an unapologetically shallow
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Stark, severe, and infused with a sense of almost stifling desperation, Galina Volchek’s take on Chekhov’s Three Sisters is both gruelling and
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Debuting on a UK stage some 17 years after its original Off-Broadway run, Pete ‘n’ Keely is a diverting, tongue-in-cheek tribute to
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Both intricate and understated, No Place for a Woman is a subtle and compelling character piece set during the closing days of
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Poised perilously between genius and gibberish, Cosmic Trigger is, at heart, a biography of iconic counterculture author Robert Anton Wilson. A sprawling
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When white atheist Thomas converts to Islam, his sister Sarah struggles to come to terms with his choices. Based on events from
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Kicking off a micro-season of work by Moscow’s acclaimed Sovremennik Theatre, Three Comrades is a paean to human dignity adapted from Erich Maria
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